• AAST 4020: The Black West

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  This course explores the historical experiences and contributions of people of African descent to the American West from their earliest recorded presence in the 16th Century through the present. Prerequisites: AAST100, any AAST 2000-level course, junior/senior standing, or three hours of any level of HIST course.
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• AAST 4050: Development, Africa, Culture

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Focuses on the complex and checkered relationships between Western-inspired development and African cultures. Striking a balance among ethnographic case studies, theoretical lenses, and practical implications, understand what Euro-American efforts at foreign development, including contemporary globalization, look like from an African perspective. Provides an understanding of African expectations of development and developers. Cross listed with INST 4050. Dual listed with AAST 5050. Prerequisites: Junior standing and instructor consultation.
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• AAST 4060: NGOs, Development, Culture

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have grown exponentially in number and are often viewed as the new and best vehicle for international development. Focuses on international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), in contexts of Western aid to post-colonial societies and the role they play in the international aid system. Understand INGOs from historical, global, and cultural perspectives. Dual listed with AAST 5060. Cross listed with INST 4060. Prerequisites: Junior standing and instructor consultation.
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• AAST 4100: AA Rel Culture

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  This mid-level writing-intensive seminar is a comparative study of African American religious celebration, primarily in the context of Afro-Christianity, but touching on Islam, Candomble, "Voodoo," Santeria, and Rastafarianism. Cross listed with RELI 4100. Prerequisites: WB and one of the following: AAST 1000 or any AAST 2000-level course or RELI 1000.
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• AAST 4160: Afro Rhetoric

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  African American discourse and its relationship to equality and participation. Through examiniation of various media, music, speeches, and art this course uses the struggle of African Americans as an instructive exemplar, to come to terms with the philosophical concepts, political issues, moral complexities, and discursive characteristics of African American Rhetoric. Dual listed with AAST 5160; cross listed with COJO 4160. Prerequisites: 9 credit hours in AAST or COJO and junior standing.
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• AAST 4190: Dimensions of Racism

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Explores the effects of racism on African people in America using an African centered framework. We will look at the ways racism intersects with sexism, classism, and heterosexism/homophobia within the African community both in America and throughout the Diaspora. Cross listed with COJO 4190. Dual listed with AAST 5190. Prerequisites: AAST 1000 or any AAST 2000 level course, junior/senior standing, or nine credits in any level course in COJO.
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• AAST 4200: Harlem Renaissance

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Examines the florescence of African American creativity, centered in Harlem, New York, between the end of World War I and the onset of the Great Depression. Cross listed with AMST 4200. Prerequisites: AAST 1000 and junior standing.
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• AAST 4231: Minority Media Ownership

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Examines ethnic-owned media organizations in the United States. The course addresses African American, Latino, Asian, Native American as well as Arab American owned media. We examine the markets and audiences that ethnic owned media serve and the implications of regulatory, economical, and technological changes in the media industry. Cross listed with COJO 4231. Prerequisite: AAST 1000 or any AAST 2000 level course, junior/senior standing, or nine credits in any level COJO course.
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• AAST 4233: Race Gender Ethnicity Media

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Examine the role mass media plays in the Black community and other racial, ethnic, gendered, and socioeconomic communities. Students will develop a critical understanding of the way the mass media uses stereotypes and prejudice to influence society's views about ethnic minorities and women in in contemporary United States society. Cross listed with WMST 4233 and COJO 4233. Dual listed with AAST 5233. Prerequisite: three credit hours in AAST, COJO, or WMST, WB, and junior standing.
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• AAST 4250: Harlem Renaissance

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Examines the florescence of African American creativity, centered in Harlem, New York, between the end of World War I and the onset of the Great Depression. This movement had a tremendous impact on African American culture in and outside of the U.S., including Africa and the Caribbean. Cross listed with AMST 4250. Dual listed with AAST 5250. Prerequisites: AAST 1000, AMST 2010, AMST 2110 or any AAST 2000-level course, junior or senior standing, or nine credit hours in any level AMST course: graduate standing.
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